Joe Flanigan Quotes

There are a lot of new opportunities that are poking their head up in my future. I've been very fortunate that way, but for right now, what I like is what I'm doing.

The key is to join an industry that you have a passion for. If you love cars, then automotive is where you should end up.

When I graduated from UCLA, I actually started interviewing for banking jobs. But at some point I realized a career in banking felt more like a continuation of school than a passion.

I am just at that stage of wondering where I go from here. I came into this business almost by accident, but now it has become serious. What started as a bit of fun, something to do other than be a model, has taken on a different career curve. I have been forced to ask where that curve is going to end up.

Each of my career decisions has been very much about doing what I wanted to achieve in the role and then finding another challenge.

Don't make career choices on short-term financial gain. Job satisfaction and career enjoyment are far more important.

I just love where I am right now in my career.

After doing this, going away, trying other things and working on other shows, this character, and working within Days of Our Lives, has been one of the most enjoyable experiences in my career.

I think it's been confusing for people because I haven't had a linear career.

My job is to create myself a career that I can go to sleep satisfied with what I'm doing.

I love my career. I thought, if I was lucky, I would retire as a senior intelligence officer, still working on the issues of counterproliferation. But that didn't happen, so - new chapter.

I am proud of my career.

I've had a good career, some good experiences.

I'd had a variety of jobs - shop assistant, writer of children's magazines - but had found myself, funnily enough, as quite an uninformed sports journalist so I might have stuck with that, but I would never have been very good at it.

My career has taken so many directions.

You take the job, you learn from it, and you move on.

I didn't want to come to the end of my career and think, 'What next?'

I'm pretty happy with my career. I just know what I'm capable of.

The best thing about my career is the journey.

I could look back and say I've had a good career.

When work starts feeling too comfortable, fire yourself; go get another job.

When I came back to Hong Kong in 1992, I decided to pursue a new career challenge.

In my head, that climb up the career ladder just doesn't exist. I feel I've achieved everything I set out to achieve, as far as work goes.

I think I enjoy my job more now than I did when I started. When I started in 1996 on a national level, I was 27 and part of me was scared to death.

Sometimes I wondered whether I hadn't let my career get confined to one direction, but lately I've decided to accept the fact that I have this opportunity to be successful doing comedies.